On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Spectron International, Inc. wrote:

I installed Dovecot and OpenLDAP and at least now Dovecot is connecting to LDAP and it seems to be getting all the information. My problem is that now I'm getting the following error:

"mail process isn't allowed for root"

You don't say where you are seeing this error message, or anything about the circumstances. See:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

and it still doesn't work. What does that error means? Directory permissions wrong? Cant run as root? Root can't read mail? The important thing is, how do I solve it?

I can't answer any of your questions. I don't know what you are trying to do. I do have some insight into the message though: delivering mail as the root account is a bad idea. Reading mail as the root account is an even worse idea. Mail programs are usually large and complex programs, and in general insufficiently paranoid about security. You should always alias root@ to some other account.

OK, I've found your error message in the source code. The obvious solution appears to be to try logging into IMAP with a non-root account. [The error message could be clearer with this advice - "Root login is not permitted" or similar.]

-- Charlie

----- Original Message ----- From: "Timo Sirainen" tss@iki.fi To: "Dovecot List" dovecot@procontrol.fi Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Help configuring dovecot

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:33:08AM -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:

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"mail process isn't allowed for root" OK, I've found your error message in the source code. The obvious solution appears to be to try logging into IMAP with a non-root account.

Alternatively the users are configured with UID 0 in the LDAP database.

Ok, that was it since it was a virtual user I thought there was no need to set up uid or gid in user_attrs in the dovecot-ldap.conf file. Added it and it works.

Thanks